News North Korea » Kangwon: New N.Korean Missile Poses Fresh Threat

South Korean military authorities are scrambling for a response to North Korea's new short-range ballistic missile ... the North fired an unidentified short-range missile from Kitdaeryong, Kangwon Province, which may have been the one in question.

News North Korea » Kangwon: Korea's Divided Families Are Hoping for a Reunion

Editor’s Note: Read all of The Atlantic’s Winter Olympics coverage. In the fall of 2010, in a banquet hall in Kangwon Province in North Korea, South Korean lawmaker Woo Won Shik took a seat at table number 74. He had come with his mother to a ...

News North Korea » Kangwon: North Korean army oil embezzler sentenced to execution

A separate source in Kangwon Province said that it is not known whether the officer has been executed yet, but that "since the world’s attention is on North Korea, it is likely that the execution was carried out in secret." As previously reported by ...

News North Korea » Kangwon: Kim Jong-un’s new model farms

North Korea appears to be in the process of constructing new ... I previously mentioned it in RFA here. 6. Songchon-dong (Kangwon): This farm renovation has yet to appear in the official media (as far as I am aware). I previously reported in RFA ...

and the recently canceled inter-Korea concert was scheduled to take place in North Korea's Kangwon Province. That Lee and younger South Koreans are pursuing refinement of the local economy in an era of affluence might be good news for older Koreans like ...

News North Korea » Kangwon: North Korea plans luxury holiday resort... in area used for missile testing

He revealed that the resort would be built in Kangwon province, to the east of which three short-range ballistic missiles landed last year after being fired from the North. North Korea is desperately trying to boost tourism to prop up the country's ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea advertised a new “world-level” tourist project in coastal Kangwon province on Thursday, a statement that coincides with plans by Winter Olympics host South Korea to participate in joint sporting and cultural events in the ...

Life’s a beach in North Korea. The hermit kingdom has announced plans for a world-class resort along the coastal Kangwon province — but the area also is used as a missile testing ground, the UK’s Sun reported. The statement coincided with plans by ...

News North Korea » Kangwon: Kim Jong-un wants you to visit North Korea for your next beach holiday

North Korea will become a tourist hotspot for foreigners wanting a beach holiday, if Kim Jong-un gets his way. Announced yesterday (25 January) by Kim Jong-un's regime, the Kangwon province on North Korea's south east coast will become the new home of a ...

Kaesong was closed by South Korea in 2016 in protest over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. The inter-Korean Mount Kumgang resort in the coastal province of Kangwon closed after a South Korean tourist was shot by a North Korean guard in 2008.